Wild man Sen. John McCain is turning the tables on his old torturers. "Look, Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country," he said last year. "It's kleptocracy. It's corruption. It's a nation that's really only dependent upon oil and gas for their economy, and so economic sanctions are important." He's been pressing the U.S. to adequately arm the Ukrainians being slaughtered by superior Putin firepower. That's laudable. McCain had suffered at the heavy hands of Russian military intelligence interrogators who ran the Hanoi prison system. When was the last time a Kremlin kleptocrat, gulag kapo, newspaper fibber, terror-famine...

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